Sony KV-28LS35

As most of you already know we moved house in July of this year, but what you won't know is that about six months before that the switch on our old television broke. Dave's immediate reaction was - lets get a new television - he had by longing to get an up to date TV for ages! I pointed out that, since we were moving house, it was a bit daft to get a new TV to suit the lounge in the old house, when it might not look right in the new house. The real clincher however was when I reminded him that the new lounge might be larger than the current one and thus he could choose a larger TV! Well, that did it, we fixed the switch on the old TV so that it was ...

History: I had to return my first set because of a very noticeable geometry problem - the top left quarter of the screen was squashed down by about 1cm. The replacement is better but not what I would call perfect - the picture is horizontally bent and there's pincushion distortion in the 14:9 mode. Otherwise the set is very good. Setting up: This is dead easy. Turn it on and a language select menu appears, then you can adjust the picture tilt, then it search for and labels all the channels. It only takes a couple of minutes and it's all done. The enclosed stand is quite nice, the sides and doors keep the noise from my video down ...